I went digging through the newest research on how children learn and develop so you don’t have to. In part one, I unpack five findings that might change how you think about reading, teenage sleep, maths anxiety, and how long it can take before a different approach to learning actually shows results.
AI is a huge opportunity for home educators, but it comes with risks we don’t fully understand yet. I’m looking at what the latest research shows, how AI may change the way children learn and think, how schools are handling this, and how we can most sensibly use it in our homes.
Home educated siblings spend a lot of time together, and it can feel like ALL they do is fight. Here, I look at whether school would actually improve their relationship, what usually causes these arguments, how to reduce some of them, and how to help children handle many of their own disagreements.
Home educating CAN make your child too dependent on you, but probably not for the reasons you think. In this episode, I show you where and how healthy support can tip into over-helping, and how to raise a child who stays close to you while still developing a healthy independence.
Child-led learning is one of the strongest foundations we can build a life without school on, but it does have limits. In this episode, I look at the tricky middle ground between trusting your child’s lead and knowing when they need you to step in.
Home education makes us face a LOT of questions. In this episode, I answer fourteen of the big ones, covering everything from workbooks, writing and gaming to high school, university, conflict, deschooling, and the constant fear that you might not be doing enough.
Most of us accept what school asks children to cover without ever asking if they really need it. So, let's ask. In this episode, I clearly show the literacy, numeracy and scientific understanding most people need in life, and why 13 years spent building every possible academic foundation is crazy.
A lot of parents are sensing that the gap between school and the real world has become huge. But many are having a hard time pulling the threads together to work out why that gap feels so vast, and what the impact on their children might actually be. In this episode, I’m putting words to it.
Home education can often turn into a frustrating standoff between parent and child. In this episode, I talk through why most of the common advice on this won’t help you much, the real dynamic causing these battles, and a clear way to solve most of them for good.
Every summer, parents are told the same thing: your child will fall behind unless you keep learning. But when you trace the 'summer learning loss' panic back to its origins, the story gets way messier than we're led to believe. Let's find the research and follow the story...
Most home educating parents feel a strong pull to make sure their child is impressive. This episode gets into where that pressure is coming from, what it's doing to your child, and how to hold them to a genuinely high standard that is THEIRS.
Home education is a privilege, but not in the way most people mean it. This episode pulls the whole conversation apart - with numbers and data, with a very personal story of sacrifice, and with something a bit more uncomfortable that I think a lot of families really need to hear.
In this episode, I unpack the huge cost of raising children to be compliant, impressive, measurable and approved of, and why some of the traits that get a child sent to the principal's office may be exactly what the world is about to desperately need.
This saying is one of the most important ideas in home education. But there’s a crucial aspect to it that many of us miss. In this episode, I’ll show you where and how this idea can go wrong, and how to make sure you get it right for your child.
The education system is doubling down on measuring the things AI can now do better than any human ever will. Meanwhile the two things that actually matter - the ones that will determine whether your child thrives as an adult - are barely on its radar. This episode is about what those two things are.
I went digging through the newest research on how children learn and develop so you don’t have to. In part one, I unpack five findings that might change how you think about reading, teenage sleep, maths anxiety, and how long it can take before a different approach to learning actually shows results.
AI is a huge opportunity for home educators, but it comes with risks we don’t fully understand yet. I’m looking at what the latest research shows, how AI may change the way children learn and think, how schools are handling this, and how we can most sensibly use it in our homes.
Home educated siblings spend a lot of time together, and it can feel like ALL they do is fight. Here, I look at whether school would actually improve their relationship, what usually causes these arguments, how to reduce some of them, and how to help children handle many of their own disagreements.
Home educating CAN make your child too dependent on you, but probably not for the reasons you think. In this episode, I show you where and how healthy support can tip into over-helping, and how to raise a child who stays close to you while still developing a healthy independence.
Child-led learning is one of the strongest foundations we can build a life without school on, but it does have limits. In this episode, I look at the tricky middle ground between trusting your child’s lead and knowing when they need you to step in.
Home education makes us face a LOT of questions. In this episode, I answer fourteen of the big ones, covering everything from workbooks, writing and gaming to high school, university, conflict, deschooling, and the constant fear that you might not be doing enough.
